FTBFS if "-Werror=format-security" flag is used

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Thu, Dec 05, 2013 at 07:11:19PM +0100, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
>  Sure, there are some serious cases, but ... there are many more
> further spread issues in C/C++-sources which people have been
> ignoring ever since Fedora and RH Linux distros exist.
> 
> IMO, -Wformat-security is almost negibile in comparison to these and
> you are making way too much noise about it than it deserves.

C/C++ sucks and it's sad that developers won't use more reliable
languages and techniques.  However, *given* that there exists a lot of
C/C++ code that we'd like to run, it's better to try to harden it than
to give up.

Rich.

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